| Title |
The color purple
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| Names |
Walker, Alice.
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| Length |
8 hours, 51 minutes
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| Book Number |
DB058842
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| Title Status |
Active
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| Download Link |
Downloadable talking book.
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| Narrator |
Mickens-Hundley, Tracy.
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| Language |
English
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| Annotation |
Follows two black sisters--Nettie, a missionary, and Celie, raped by her father and married to a cruel man. Nettie's letters do not reach Celie, and Celie's shame is so great that she writes only to God. Anniversary edition includes Walker's 1992 preface. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Pulitzer Prize. 1982.
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| Medium |
Digital Books
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| Audience Notes |
Contains some explicit descriptions of sex. NLS/BPH
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Contains strong language. NLS/BPH
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Female narrator. NLS/BPH
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Pulitzer Prize winner. NLS/BPH
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| Local Subject |
Family Stories - Fiction - FAM
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| LC Subject |
Abused wives - Fiction
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Adult child sexual abuse victims - Fiction
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African American women - Fiction
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Sisters - Fiction
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Family problems - Fiction
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Southern States - Fiction
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| Call Number |
813.54 AFI
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| Released |
2007
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| Publication Info |
Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2007. (AMI, recording studio).
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| Original Publication |
Recorded from: 10th anniversary ed./1st ed. New York : Harcourt, c1982. 0151191549
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